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“How to be a good wife to a bad husband” is one of many search phrases bringing people to this website. A search phrase is what you type into your search engine’s search field to look up ideas online. Before we look at how to be the most-splendid wife to the most-unsplendid spouse, let me…
Character issues in marriage: Many women find themselves in marriages where a spouse is deeply wounding or immature, or proud but won’t address these individual character issues. Or the spouse says they are “working on it,” but the wife never really sees the long-term fruit of that work. She wants to know what’s going on,…
Healthy vs. unhealthy spouse: how do you differentiate? I often hear how hard it is to distinguish between good and bad marriages. Married people struggle to discern if their spouse is actually trying to do better or if they have settled into routines of irresponsibility, entitlement, neglect, addictions, and other harmful/unhealthy patterns. Today, I want…
Is she leaving a healthy relationship? I do what I do because the thought of more women continuing to believe they are having routine marriage problems when they are not is crushing to me. My one goal is to offer clarity to that individual who believes her hard is a typical day of marriage and to support…
Spouses in destructive marriages are often accused of having an aversion to marriage conflict. They are told to develop relationship muscles to help them address and solve relationship problems. tw: betrayal “Everyone says something they don’t mean. Everyone forgets sometimes. Come on, he’s begging for forgiveness” is said to the wife, who confesses she no…
Many women in unsafe marriages don’t know their marriages are draining the life out of them. And one of the reasons they don’t know their marriages are killing them is because, in the Christian world, most (if not all) problems in marriage are presented as “normal marriage issues everyone goes through.” Even when a plain-to-see…